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Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?



2009/6/23 Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:41:44 -0700
> Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "A similar study was later made of Debian Linux version 2.2 (also
>> known as "Potato"); this version of Linux was originally released in
>> August 2000. This study found that Debian Linux 2.2 included over 55
>> million SLOC, and if developed in a conventional proprietary way would
>> have required 14,005 person-years and cost $1.9 billion USD to
>> develop."
>
> Just wondering where that last 5 came from? ;-) possibly that's for arguing
> with people why you languages other than c/c++ ...

That's gotta be about Vim vs. Emacs. ;-) Or maybe about where to put
the braces after having decided that Vim rules! :-P

>> Are you going to live that long? Do you have that much money? (If yes
>> to the latter, could you please send a few million my way?) ;-)
>
> I would like to say to both but I would settle for the first for now, the
> second I'll take care of in a few thousand years

You're still alive so you have not been proven mortal yet. ;-)


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